Good morning everyone! Now I'm going to tell you about the elements of a creative writing thesis. This is a new type of thesis that we have here at the English letters department of Universitas Macong.
Now what I'm going to tell you might sound familiar because you have Learned about the elements of research thesis. Yeah, the title of the chapters is actually pretty similar, but they are different in terms of contents. We have an introduction, we have a review of related literature, but the third one is different because it has the process overview.
And then you have a process notes. And finally, you have a conclusion and suggestions section. Some of these might sound familiar to you, but the contents of these familiar chapters are actually different from the contents of the research thesis. Now let me break it down one by one to you. In the introduction, you need to have a background which should describe the situation in the world that inspires you to write.
this particular work and it will be good if you can present it as one problem in the world which you support with examples or evidence from newspapers, from journals, from books and so on. And you state that this is a problem that needs to be addressed in various ways and what you are doing is proposing something, a creative work. Whether it be a short story, a novel, a novella, or poetry collection, or travel writing, that addresses the problem. How does a literary work address the problem? By showing it to the people so that it raises people's awareness, or maybe makes people think about something, or maybe makes people question certain things.
And that would be your project objectives. And next, you will have the review of related literature. Here, there are three elements that you need to cover.
The first one is related to the theoretical framework or topical framework. It needs to address the topic that you want to explore in your creative work. If you want to talk about bravery, for example, Then here you need to present the definition of bravery, references related to bravery, what experts think about bravery, and so on.
Basically, any supporting materials that can help enlighten you about the topic so that when you write about that particular topic in your creative work, you will not go there as a blank sheet of paper, right? You are somebody informed, so when you write something, it becomes meaningful and it is reliable. Right, the first one is the theoretical framework or the topical framework.
The next one is called the formal framework. This should cover the genre you are writing, the form of literature you are going to create. If you want to write a travel writing for example, then you need to talk about what travel writing is, what are the elements of travel writing, and what are the best examples of travel writing. Just so, again, here you try to convince us, your lecturers or advisors, that you are capable of doing that.
And if you want to write a short story, for example, or a prose work, then you need to be able to show us what is a prose work and what are its elements and what needs to be highlighted. And if you are sure you want to highlight certain areas, then show the literature related to that to us. And the last one is a study or a collection of studies on earlier works.
If for example you want to write a detective novel and in the detective novel you will use certain styles or certain topics then it is important for you to do a an earlier study of earlier detective works that can help you that can shed the light on how you do that or how you how you deal with a topic. If your detective novel is about a serial murder, then find an earlier work on serial murder that you can use as your model. This is what it serves actually to show us that you have a model that you can develop.
on or you can build on. Alright, these are the elements of the second chapter. The third chapter is called the process overview.
It talks about details related to your project. If you are writing a science fiction work for example, then you mention over here explicitly, no nonsense, very clearly that you are going to write a science fiction work. that talks about the society of Indonesia after the pandemic, for example. So you explain here what work you are creating and what the topic of your work is. Next, you mention over here the elements, the formal elements of the work, such as if you write a prose work, then you will talk about who the characters are.
And what are they? Or the characterization? And what are the settings?
And you may also mention here why are the settings those? And so on. Basically, the formal elements of the work need to be broken down here for your advisors to know what you will be doing or what particular works it will include, involve.
And finally, you will also need to present the stages of the creation of your work. This will look like a timeline in which you have the date and month probably and what you will achieve in certain dates or certain months. For example, in December, you will finish, you will brainstorm the work, you will brainstorm the topic for example. In January, you will start preparing the plot and the characters.
And in February, you will complete the rough draft of the first chapter and so on and so forth. So when you defend your proposal, which usually includes chapters one to three, you will already have a big picture of what you will be doing. and your advisors will know what you will be doing in the project.
Next, in chapter four, you will present the process notes. This is a chapter that you write after you complete the creative work, after you finish writing your short story or your novel or your poetry collection. This will include what problems you experienced during the writing or what lessons you learned during the writing and how you solve those problems and so on. This is usually a part that you can use as the foreword of your work. If you publish a work then the foreword can be from this.
And finally you have the conclusion and suggestion and I believe I don't have any, I don't need to explain this further because it's pretty much self-explanatory here. And besides, you have learned about this in the research project, research thesis. Now this is an important part of your project.
The length requirement of this one is a bit different from the length requirement of the research thesis. Here chapters 1 to 5 need to have at least 30 pages. And in total, you will need to have around 60 to 70 pages for the work.
So if you have 31 pages for chapters 1 to 5, then you might need to add, say, 29 or 30 pages of work in order to have a full thesis. The structure is quite unique here because chapters... 1 to 5 are Presenting the background of the work and the technical aspects of the work, earlier studies on the work and the process notes or process report of the notes. While the work itself, it needs to be presented in a different section which is the appendix.
The short story or the novella that you write will be presented in a different section which is the appendix one. Alright, I guess that's all from me about this one. I hope it gives you some, it gives you adequate information to start the project. And if you have further questions as usual, I invite you to come to the Microsoft Teams discussion room.
Alright everyone, bye-bye, thanks.